Authors: Elena A. Pearce, Florence Mazier, Signe Normand, Ralph Fyfe, Valérie Andrieu, Corrie Bakels, Zofia Balwierz, Krzysztof Bińka, Steve Boreham, Olga K. Borisova, Anna Brostrom, Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu, Cunhai Gao, Penélope González-Sampériz, Wojciech Granoszewski, Anna Hrynowiecka, Piotr Kołaczek, Petr Kuneš, Donatella Magri, Małgorzata Malkiewicz, Tim Mighall, Alice M. Milner, Per Möller, Małgorzata Nita, Bożena Noryśkiewicz, Irena Agnieszka Pidek, Maurice Reille, Ann-Marie Robertsson, J. Sakari Salonen, Patrick Schläfli, Jeroen Schokker, Paolo Scussolini, Vaida Šeirienė, Jaqueline Strahl, Brigitte Urban, Hanna Winter, Jens-Christian Svenning
Published: 2023-11-10
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The extent of vegetation openness in past European landscapes is widely debated. In particular, the temperate forest biome has traditionally been defined as dense, closed-canopy forest; however, some argue that large herbivores maintained greater openness or even wood-pasture conditions. Here, we address this question for the Last Interglacial period (129,000–116,000 years ago), before